Washington withdrew from the nuclear deal in May. The other signatories argue that it is the best chance at slowing, and ultimately ending, Iran’s nuclear ambitions. They now worry that pressure in Iran to resume nuclear activities will rise.

Manafort’s protégé turns on him

Asked whether he was involved in any criminal activity with Mr. Manafort, Mr. Gates responded, “Yes.” He also acknowledged his own wrongdoing, adding that he knew about the alleged scheme because he “was the one who helped organize the paperwork.”

The case is seen as the first test of whether the special counsel, Robert Mueller, can win a courtroom conviction, and it’s being closely watched because both Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates held top posts in the Trump campaign.

66 shooting victims, zero arrests

At a news conference on Monday, the police superintendent and the mayor blamed too many guns in circulation, the failure of the judicial system and the need for better parenting.

• Community leaders and civil rights groups say the police have given those who live in the neighborhoods hit hardest by the violence little reason to trust them. Chicago has one of the lowest rates of solving killings of any major U.S. city.

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A boy on a bicycle was among 12 people who were shot and killed in Chicago over the weekend.CreditArmando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune, via Associated Press

Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Fight for Ohio

Republicans deployed a polarizing message and millions of advertising dollars in an attempt to rescue what used to be a reliably conservative congressional seat.

The death of a missile maker

• Aziz Asbar was one of Syria’s most important rocket scientists, bent on amassing an arsenal that could be launched against Israeli cities.

On Saturday, he was killed by a car bomb apparently planted by the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency.

• It was at least the fourth attempted assassination by Israel in three years against an enemy weapons engineer on foreign soil, a senior official from a Middle Eastern intelligence agency said on Monday. Read more about the operation here.

Joël Robuchon was an inventive French chef whose restaurants collectively earned a record number of Michelin stars, recasting haute cuisine by emphasizing intense flavors and precise technique. He was 73.

Lynda Richardson, an editor in Travel, recommends this video from The Atlantic: “I saw this on a friend’s Facebook feed — a powerful animated video that shows that grief can be turned into grace, lifting you from despair. The soundtrack is Joan Baez singing ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace,’ a meditation on the June 2015 mass shooting, a hate crime, at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.”

Back Story

This year, Countess Constance Markievicz finally took her place in the British Parliament.

A woman held the portrait of Countess Constance Markievicz at an event in Dublin in 2017 to commemorate the anniversary of the Easter Rising.CreditBrian Lawless/PA Wire

Countess Markievicz never took her seat, in keeping with the abstentionist policy of her Irish party, Sinn Fein, whose members refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the British crown.

Before she was elected, she fought for women’s and labor rights, and Irish nationalism. Her participation in the 1916 Easter Rising, an armed rebellion against British rule, led to a death sentence that was commuted because she was a woman.

After her release, she was again arrested, but was elected to the House of Commons from prison.

She said of women’s rights in 1922, “I would work for it anywhere, as one of the crying wrongs of the world, that women, because of their sex, should be debarred from any position or any right that their brains entitle them a right to hold.”